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Am I the only one who found this article aggravating? This was like a catholic having a mea culpa over his church's pedarasty while ignoring the atrocities it has committed against the rest of humanity over thousands of years. If the gay community has ever given a flying f*ck about anyone who wasn't rich, white, gay and negative, it was long before I knew I was gay or poz. I resent the tone of this article. It's entirely too forgiving of a community which doesn't just "shame" people, but literally dismisses them and figuratively throws them in front of a bus when they become inconvenient. Not just the poz, but the poor, people of color and people who aren't the right shade of precious. Mainstream Gay America doesn't need a watered down article bribing it to stop shaming gay poz youth in exchange for more "disclosure" (read: self-segregation). Mainstream Gay America needs to be told that it is fast approaching a point where it is the oppressor, not the oppressed.
AMEN.
Coming out HIV+ takes courage, but I've yet to regret doing it. Read my story at http://www.facebook.com/notes/rob-kinsey/coming-out-take-two/10151451681338685
What a wonderful elder we have in David Mixner and I thank God for him today and getting the opportunity to see his heart of Love. Can I call you David? I am praying about your words of bio similar and your suggested direction of opening up conversation and action to these new terms of policy. Is bio similar the same as Generic Drugs? Anyway I love you Man and keep up the good works for you are the apple of God's eyes. Peace be with you and yours, tell Bill I love him too and he owns me a beer or two. Hee Hee
Mr. Mixner is coming out of the closet again and for the second time he has came back into the HIV battle for justice and righteous in the last few weeks. Welcome back and hope some healing has happen to you, from the past, for some may know this man, for I do not know him. However my friend Gene Copello like him a lot and clearly for some he is a politic icon in the fight for human rights and made it through the first decade of AIDS. I agree that young people need support and understanding when it comes to learning about their sexuality and/or HIV status, for I like to tell parents if you do not teach your children about human sexuality then some one else may teach them. It is sad in a day where HIV/AIDS has turned on itself and the youth. Again it is an effort to again say it is their problem not ours. It again is a very sad attempt by mis-guided leaders, elders, or just plain stuffy people that have taken their sexuality to hide it in the sand and then try to stone the rest of the sexual people. I know the Black Church and White Church think they are helping by living in shame themselves to try and transfer it to think they are helping young folks, again where is the truth, where is the fruit, where is the hope, better yet where are the men of integrity, honor and truth for these youth? Sometimes when I look back at all the shame and disgrace I have had to go through within this HIV shame I am sadly ashamed to be an American for freedom and liberty seems to be just for a few that are clean. Yes, ashamed of my kinship, not myself.
the "trauma" of reality having experienced it, and felt it as close to home that one can - is real eye opener for me...it's important that we be compassionate at all times. Bravo to you David, your one of my heros for long time...
Whatever one's views on a person's choices, it is important to remember, as you have pointed out, we are all human. The beauty of compassion should not be reserved for those that share the same views in life that we do.
Daryl Bayles
Your comments were right on. Thank you, Daryl
March 29, 2013